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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Add time option for expensive trace

I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

If Db2 boosts a thread, it should have preference over other boost activities (like zIIP boost)

We had the situation that some threads (DDF threads) hold a latch and this latch is required also for Db2 system tasks. The Db2 boost does not help in this situation because we use zIIP boost during IPL. So from a WLM perspective higher prioritize...
30 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable Agent-Level Security Configuration for Embedded Chat in Watson Orchestrate

Tenant-Level Security Scope in Watson Orchestrate Embedded Chat
30 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Under review

The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Match Correlation ID from DIS THREAD with DIS ARCHIVE

We had a problem with a CDC tool because it was reading/requesting Archlogs.With DIS ARCHIVE we could easily identify that it was the CDC tool. With DIS THREAD you could see that there are many different processes coming from that tool.Now you nee...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Support .TXT files for text extraction

In the overall messaging of watsonx.data Premium for unstructured data, we discuss ingestion of various unstructured documents, which includes word/PPT/PDF and .TXT files. From a unstructured data integration standpoint, .TXT files can be ingested...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review